Item Transfer between ALTS on the Same Account.

[MaiSuu]

Hello!

I don't post often, but This has seriously been bugging me in game. I play with several alts, but can't seem to ever transfer items between them EASILY, be it armor, or just some gil. The option to do so doesn't exist.
Instead I find myself having to reach out to a friend and have them trade the item over to me. It really becomes an annoyance and burden after a while.

So with this in mind I'm asking if there's ever a chance we could implement a Shared inventory, like the chocobo saddle bag, or something of that nature to trade among characters on the same server and Account?

For those with multiple alts I feel this would be a great game changer and QoL improvement.

Anyway, just putting the Idea out there with hopes...

Thoughts and Ideas welcome!

[Yshtola]

Why did you take the decision to have multiple alts when the game isn't alt friendly? A solution to all your problems is to have at least two service accounts.

[hynaku]

Only way is have your main and alts in the same fc and use fc chest to transfer gil and gear back and forth.

[Rilifane]

Another option is using the MB for transfer.
You can set the price to 1gil to avoid losing money but it obviously puts the items at risk of being bought by another player and losing it altogether.
If you do it outside peak hours and as long as it's not an extremely popular item it's a decent alternative.

But I agree, at least one small shared inventory would be nice. This game is so incredibly alt-unfriendly and the excuse is always RMT. There are many reasons to play an alt and if you pay extra to do so, you should at least have the option of limited item transfer between alts without having to exclude yourself from regular FCs, pestering friends or risking money/ item loss via MB.

[LaylaTsarra]

Why did you take the decision to have multiple alts when the game isn't alt friendly? A solution to all your problems is to have at least two service accounts.

Because alts are fun. I have a slew of them. Because some here feel that having more than one isn't necessary the fact of the matter is lots do and enabling them to do some things to make it easier would be nice.

I shouldn't have to pay for multiple service accounts when alts are part of what the game lets you do.

[Iscah]

My understanding is that trading between alts is restricted to prevent RMT bots from passing money around easily - so they've sort of ruined it for the rest of us, if that's the case.

I think I've said before, I'd like to see some kind of deliberately-restrictive "transfer box" that could be used to pass items within the account but not at a rate convenient to the bots. Perhaps once a week you could deposit a single item and collect it with another character.

It probably comes down to their coding and how it recognises characters/accounts. If we can't share things like achievements and tallies, maybe there isn't actually the structure in place to create a "shared space" accessible by multiple characters.

This game is so incredibly alt-unfriendly and the excuse is always RMT. There are many reasons to play an alt and if you pay extra to do so...

You don't exactly need to pay extra to have alts, as long as you're okay with having them on different worlds. (Though of course that would rule out creating an FC if you were going that route.)

[worldofneil]

There's been two instances where there was a way for someone to friend their own alts, which meant they could then send items as well as add them to shared housing. Two things the community have been actively asking for.

In both cases SE put a stop to that ASAP with hotfixes so it seems clear they don't want us doing that even though it would appear that there's no technical issues in doing so.

I don't think I've ever seen an official reason why (people say RMT, but where do they say that?), but since it's known that RMT bots create free companies and use the company chest I don't think that's it.

Obviously just my speculation, but I think they don't want us having free storage and want us to pay for extra retainers, at a monthly cost. Obviously extra retainers wouldn't help the OP, but unfortunately I think that's a side effect of them blocking it. Extra characters were how we used to increase our storage on Final Fantasy XI Online.